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Lot 252
Sale 2065 - Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana
Nov 14, 2024
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$800 -
1,200
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$1,143
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Lot Description
[NATURAL HISTORY]. ROSENBERG, Mary Elizabeth (1819-1914). The Museum of Flowers. London: R. Groombridge & Sons, 1845.
4to (267 x 178 mm). Lithographed title-page, 54 hand-colored plates. Contemporary half olive calf, marbled boards, spine in 5 compartments separated by double gilt fillets, dark red lettering-piece gilt, marbled edges (rebacked preserving original spine, light rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Augusta Mabel [illegible] (contemporary ownership signature dated 1846).
FIRST EDITON. Rosenberg was a British flower painter and member of the Institute of Painters in Water-Colours. Her work was exhibited at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Nissen BBI 1679.
Property from the Estate of Peter Fortsas
